Alan Ross Winans

Alan Ross Winans 68, passed away on Saturday, April 27th after complications from a heart

attack.

He was born in Stockton, California May 13, 1944.

Alan graduated from Franklin Senior High School, class of 1962, where he majored in Drama and English. He appeared in numerous high school plays there, and went on to perform in the summer Repertory Theatre at U.O.P.'s Fallon House, Columbia in 1963. He attended Delta College, and proved what an accomplished actor he had become in several roles that he was cast in. He performed at Stockton Civic Theatre in "Once upon a Mattress" in 1964. He

attended San Francisco State

College and graduated with a BA degree.

When Alan returned to Stockton he began working in the Hospitality Industry which included many aspects of hotel management. He moved to San Francisco 1967 and started a career with the San Francisco Hilton Hotel Corporation.

After living and working many years in San Francisco, he again returned to Stockton and began working for Lawrence Livermore Labs in Livermore, doing various jobs in the engineering field.

Alan also enjoyed singing, and would perform solos at the First Presbyterian Church in Stockton. He very much valued the friends he made at the church during the many years he attended services there.

Alan is survived by his sister

Barbara Wallace of Stockton, his beloved cousins, Janice Lagorio of Stockton and Luanne Porter of San Jose, his longtime friend of 53 years, Robert Jenson of San Francisco, his devoted friends Barbara Spradlin, Cheri Jenson-Bailey, and Stephen Jenson of Stockton,

Michael Thomas of Los Angeles, and John Baker of Salem, Oregon.

Alan was a unique and extremely intelligent man. He was the real life personification of "Sheldon" in "The Big Bang Theory", a one off, not like anyone else you have even known. All will miss him very much.